Improvement in buckles



G. W. BRADFORD. I

Buckles.

Nut-52,455., Patentedlune30,1874.

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GEORGE IV. BRADFORD, OF LA SALLE, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT m BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,455, dated June 30, 1874; application filed April 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE IV. BRAD- FORD, of La Salle, in the county of Monroe and State of Michigan, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same. reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a plan view of my buckle, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views of the same.

This invention has relation to harnessbnckles; and it consists in a wedged clamping-plate connected to the pivoted bale by means of an oblong loop, which will prevent a casual detachment of said plate from the buckle, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, Figs. 1 and 2, I.

band-strap, B, applied to the improved buckle. The frame of this buckle consists of two arched side bars, a a; a crossbar, b, to which the tug A is permanently secured; a loop and crossbar, 0, beneath which the tug-strap passes and a fiat depressed floor, 0, on which a stud or tongue, 0, is formed. F designates a e1a1npplate having inclined planes or wedges g 9 formed on it. This plate is provided with a stud or tongue, f, and also with an oblong loop, g, through which latter the cross -bar of the bale E passes, and in which this partof the bale is allowed to play freely. The loop g connects the clan'iping-plate E to the bale in such manner that the former will not be casir GEORGE WITHINGION' BRADFORD.

Witnesses J. D. RoUAN, CHAS. A. GOLDEN. 

